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Lecture Five Social Interaction & the Construction of Social Differences Social Interaction & Social Structure Our day to day social interactions are part of the process of socialization and shape our individual identities as well as the social structures in which we live

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“As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.”

Take about 10-15 minutes and write a list of at least 5 privileges that you think you carry around in an invisible knapsack. These privileges can be based on the following structures of privilege:

White privilege

Male privilege

Physical Ability Privilege

Heterosexual Privilege

Religious Privilege

Other?

For each privilege explain if this privilege is a positive advantage (one that all individuals in society should have) or a negative advantage (one that can only be gained at the expense of others)? Explain.

Social categories of difference in our society such as race, gender, and sexuality are socially constructed and made meaningful when our social interactions and actions reinforce these ideas

As we act, interact, and react to these ideas we reinforce a social structure in which ideas about race, gender, and sexuality have real consequences and real inequalities develop

We are born in an unequal social structure based on these ideas, but since social structure is only made possible through our actions, we have the power in our day to day interactions to reshape society